"There have been some wierd things lurking about..." Cassidy supposed, thinking hard. "I bet they are all related! The cave troll, that butler Death Eater person, the chimeara, and the lake creature!"
Cassidy looked at her friends, terror in her eyes.
"You don't think it's Vol-" she was cut off abruptly with a stare from Professor McGonigall. Cassidy turned her attention to her.
"Students," she began hastily, her wand was in hand. "You are to stay in your dorms until further notice! Anyone who disobeys these rules will be severely punished. Someone will come to get you when it is safe."
She was bombarded with tons of questions from students. A few first years were sobbing in a corner, petrified.
"He-who-shall-not-be-named is here!" one girl cried out hysterically, throwing the common room into a panic.
Of course, Voldermort was nowhere to be seen, but the hysteria gave Cassidy an idea. She looked at Terra, Berii, and the shaking Karli.
"Let's go get some stuff upstairs," she told them. "We know a lot more about the events that happened over the past few days than most of the teachers do! We have to invesitigate!"
With that, she disappeared up the stairs to her room, grabbing her broom, and setting her books down in her trunk. She glanced for a moment at the gifts she would have to wrap later with a kind of longing.
If this is Voldermort...she thought quietly to herself. We could all die tonight...
Pushing the thought out of her head, she ran down to the common room, unnoticed by the commotion around her, and squeezed through the pothole. She stood in the shadows, her heart thumping unbearably, and waited for her friends.